Abū Zur‘ah ad-Dimashqī said, “Abū Ṭalḥah lived for forty years after the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, fasting without interruption (1).”

I say: in fact he survived the Prophet by a little over twenty years.

Aḥmad ibn al-Barqī stated: “Abū Ṭalḥah fought at Badr, was one of the naqībs (twelve deputies), and ‘Uthmān led the funeral prayer over him. Roughly twenty hadiths are related from him.”

Hammād ibn Salamah—on the authority of Thābit and ‘Alī ibn Zayd, from Anas—reported:

Abū Ṭalḥah’s sons said to him, “You have campaigned in the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, of Abū Bakr, and of ‘Umar; allow us now to fight on your behalf.” He refused, sailed out on a naval campaign himself, and died there (2).

Ja‘far ibn Sulaymān—on the authority of Thābit, from Anas—said:

Abū Ṭalḥah sought Umm Sulaym’s hand in marriage. She said, “Indeed, I desire you, and a man like you is not turned away, but you are a disbeliever. If you embrace Islam, that shall be my bridal gift; I ask nothing else.” So he accepted Islam and married her.

Thābit commented, “We have never heard of a dowry more noble than the dowry of Umm Sulaym: Islam itself (3).”

aṭ-Ṭayālisī narrated to us through Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīrah, Hammād, and Ja‘far ibn Sulaymān, from Thābit, from Anas. Abū Dāwūd added: “A shaykh also transmitted it to us, having heard it from an-Naḍr ibn …”